Apple is working towards its new edition of Mac OS X, and we have got skinny on some of its new features. The new 10.7 version is
likely to come with full screen apps and augmented version of Expose, which will now be called "Mission Control". The new "Mission Control" will let you cluster your apps' windows together. It will also integrate Desktop and Dashboard views. Apps' cluster feature is more likely to work like photo grouping on the iPad. Looks like, Apple is looking to converge iOS and Mac OS X.
Another development is related to scroll bars, which simply go out of the view when not in use. Surprisingly, Steve Jobs did not find this development important enough to be mentioned. However, there are some screenshots taken during the "Back to the Mac" which show off this new feature. However, some other demonstrations showed that the new OS might just use contextual scroll bars. A demonstration by Apple's vice president of Mac OS X engineering showed new Mac App Store window without any bar, however, upon scrolling, an iOS style bar appeared for aiding the scrolling process and then conveniently vanished after a few moments of inactivity. Sounds interesting, right? So, what do you think scrollbars are a must-have or a simple waste of screen real-estate? Let us know.
Source: AppleInsider
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I think that scrollbars are a must have all the time. How to you know if it is the end of the page or not? Maybye you were browsing through google images for random reason and then you close the image thing, but then you got that scrollbar glitch. (When the original site has a scrollbar but there is no scrollbar and you can’t scroll because it is a google URL for some reason.) Yes i do think that i will stick with Snow Leopard.